I moved from a shared server to a GoDaddy server a few years ago. Pretty good specs for the price. There are many alternatives to GoDaddy, but their prices are reasonable with pretty good support (if you wanna pay for a little extra. I have never had ANY complaints with this comany and they will bend over backwards to make things right with the customer.

thanks for the great advice. At what point (or size) of my board should I consider moving to a dedicated server? Right now I dont really want to fork out the $$$$ unless the site takes off...I have another board which has a little of 32,000 posts and is doing fine so far.

thanks for the great advice. At what point (or size) of my board should I consider moving to a dedicated server? Right now I dont really want to fork out the $$$$ unless the site takes off...I have another board which has a little of 32,000 posts and is doing fine so far.

It's not the posts what should worry you, It's all about the users online, and what the server load is doing.